this years ybs

hows yer breeding going lads n lasses not hearing much about it from members ...ours are all due to hatch Friday,saturday and sunday alfies getting excited about it all he says we will have easter chics dad wants to name the ybs after the teenage mutant ninja turtles great to see him getting involved the birds are very calm around him will take some pics when they have chipped out ,love the breeding aspect of the hobby alfies pre-school want me to do a talk and take a few birds down for the kids to see

should not say this o/s but me and my son think this years crop are the best we have ever bred

ive just rung 3 got another 2 to ring tomorrow .mob flyer lol

I've bred 10 cracking youngens, so pleased with them and I bought one from Tumley stud, timed it perfect it arrived the day I took mine away from the nest.
All jabbed 2 days after weaning.
Everything going too well at the moment.
As we all know with pigeons, there's always something lurking around the corner.

24 young birds up to now in total, will be having 2 sections for racing. Things moving along looking good.

Had 25 that had been out a few times until yesterday had them out on the loft roof when another loft further up let there widowhood cocks out they come over the top of the young birds all took off 4,missing hopefully they will be back today.

VanReet Man123 wrote:

Had 25 that had been out a few times until yesterday had them out on the loft roof when another loft further up let there widowhood cocks out they come over the top of the young birds all took off 4,missing hopefully they will be back today.

Hope they return for you, atb with them.

VanReet Man123 wrote:

Had 25 that had been out a few times until yesterday had them out on the loft roof when another loft further up let there widowhood cocks out they come over the top of the young birds all took off 4,missing hopefully they will be back today.

hope they work back

Started late but going fantastically well..no problems what so ever.ybs all over the place lol

VanReet Man123 wrote:

Had 25 that had been out a few times until yesterday had them out on the loft roof when another loft further up let there widowhood cocks out they come over the top of the young birds all took off 4,missing hopefully they will be back today.

occupational hazards eh vrm ...you just hope they don't go up until they have had a good look around ...hope they turn in for you there today

It is 1,we're on the loft this morning and another in a tree ain't seen the other 2.

Mine were out yesterday, 2nd time. Some strong on wing. Open loft all day. Windy. One got blown in to a barn wall I think. No marks on it. Just dead. Rest all in and looking fine.

ive a few ybs in the nest now, rung 6 a couple of days ago and plenty more to come yet....

We had a young bird reported sadly dead I presume hawk so 1,missing young birds don't you just love them.

VanReet Man123 wrote:

We had a young bird reported sadly dead I presume hawk so 1,missing young birds don't you just love them.

Sorry to hear of your sad loss, hope things improve.

VanReet Man123 wrote:

We had a young bird reported sadly dead I presume hawk so 1,missing young birds don't you just love them.

sorry to hear vrm....that's why I will never be breeding early again its just not worth it they get really stressed when they get hawk attacks but they go to nest towards the end of april just when I will be letting mine out ok theirs still the peregrine to deal with but he rarely hits birds around the loft only when they are up in the air ...yer gonna have to deal with the problem else it will terrorise yer ybs now it knows a source of food atb

Sorry to read the sad news Van Reet Man

should get my first hatch tonight ...easter chics alfies buzzing asking if they can come out now

Hope all goes well Daz, he will be buzzing the little fella, atb with the hatch.

hope you have a good hatch Darren & Alfie..........

Hope all goes well darren mate. I got 17 hatched up to now only had 2 clear and 1 died chipping. So am happy about that. Wish everyone the best for the race season

johnnorm2 wrote:

Hope all goes well darren mate. I got 17 hatched up to now only had 2 clear and 1 died chipping. So am happy about that. Wish everyone the best for the race season

any oldhand would be happy with that hatch john I think you done very well for your first attempt

Thanks mate hope its like that every year

i had a strange thing happen with 2 different pairs, one yb hatched in each nest and the biggest half of the shell slipped over the other egg in the nest, so I removed it because it might have stopped the egg/yb chipping out.....seemed like a strange thing to happen, especially in two different nest.

oldstrain wrote:

should get my first hatch tonight ...easter chics alfies buzzing asking if they can come out now

Looking good O/S Glad the little is all go go go as such being Easter. I hope he doesn't feed them some of that chocolate that should be coming his way, for all his hard work there in his lofts. Now !!! just closed up most of my boxes here, not all Started to do a count here etc of mine & run into trouble so decided to stop at 20       if you know what I mean. Was never any good at math's .